17 years after leaving Germany for the US, author & illustrator Nora Krug decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where she'd come from. Heimat documents her journey investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, it is a powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity and the meaning of history and home. Equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative.